Spotlights

Visiting Scholars, Fall 2014

Chunyan Zhou, Lecturer in English in the School of Foreign Languages
at Chang’an University in China, teaches English (reading and writing)
to college students who mostly major in science and engineering. She
has a BA in English from Dalian Institute of Foreign Languages in
Northeastern China and an MA in Applied Linguistics from Northwest
University in Xi’an, China. She comes to us as a visiting scholar for
six months supported by her university, and her areas of interest are
sociolinguistics and pragmatics. She will attend some of our classes,
interact with our faculty and students, and do library-based research
in these areas.

Jessica Huang is a lecturer in English in the School of Business at
Xi’an International Studies University, where she teaches general
linguistics, writing, reading, and translation to business majors. She
received both her BA in English and MA in Modern Linguistics from
Xi’an International Studies University, which is a Grand Valley
partner institution and has been sending students to us since 2011.
Her visit at Grand Valley is sponsored by the Chinese government and
she will stay here for a year. Her primary goals as a visiting scholar
while at Grand Valley will be to study the relationship between
linguistic theory and TESOL, as well as factors that affect writing
levels and quality. She will attend some of our classes, interact with
faculty and students, and do library-based research.